This article is a psychoanalytical explanation of family crises in Adiche's Purple Hibiscus (2009). Psychoanalysis is a method that investigates and enquires into human behavioural attitudes. It unravels the complexities of characters‟ states of mind and reveals the depths of benefits common to psychology and literature. Using this psychoanalytical approach, this reading of Purple Hibiscus analyses the dreams and cases of the Oedipus or Electra complex in the novel
and offers another understanding of the fiction by showing that the crises in the Achike family are more psychology-related than merely provoked by religious fanaticism as literary critics have so far pointed out.

Psychoanalysis, criticism, Adichie, dream, Oedipus complex